This date in 1815 saw the birth of the writer (and inventor of the pillar box) Anthony Trollope. Here are ten things he said:
- And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.
- A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency.
- No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.
- Ride at any fence hard enough, and the chances are you’ll get over. The harder you ride the heavier the fall, if you get a fall; but the greater the chance of your getting over.
- Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
- Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
- This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.
- Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
- A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
- What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?
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